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More About This Title Working Positively with Personality Disorder inSecure Settings - A Practitioner's Perspective
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- Unique in both its coverage and in its positive and evidence-based approach to working with patients with personality disorders
- Written with a practical focus by experienced practitioners in the field
- Offers a broad approach, with contributions from forensic and clinical psychologists, nurses, and therapists
- Covers therapy and therapeutic relationships, and issues of supervision, workforce development, treatment evaluation, team dynamics and managing boundaries
- Includes a strong patient focus and a number of personal accounts from patients who have received therapy themselves
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Dr Neil Gordon is a Psychotherapist who works as a senior clinician and supervisor in a high secure forensic setting. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently seconded as a Senior Fellow to the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, where he is the Head of Doctoral Programmes and Masters Programme Lead for the National Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) recently commissioned by the Department of Health and the Ministry of Justice.
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About the Editors and Contributors x
Series Preface xiv
Eddie Kane
Preface xvii
Foreword xix
Kath Lovell
Acknowledgements xx
Introduction 1
Phil Willmot and Neil Gordon
Section 1: Context 11
Chapter 1 From ‘Anxious and Sad’ to ‘Risky and Bad’: Changing Patterns of Referrals to the Personality Disorder Service 13
Jenny Marshall and Phil Willmot
Chapter 2 Trapped in the ‘Special Hospital’: The Problems Encountered in the Pathway to Medium Secure Units 22
Amanda Tetley and Gopi Krishnan
Section 2: The Treatment Process 33
Chapter 3 What Works with Forensic Patients with Personality Disorder? Integrating the Literature on Personality Disorder, Correctional Programmes and Psychopathy 35
Phil Willmot and Amanda Tetley
Chapter 4 Assessing Personality Disorder in Forensic Settings 49
Phil Willmot
Chapter 5 A Treatment Pathway for High Security Offenders with a Personality Disorder 66
Sue Evershed
Section 3: The Therapeutic Relationship 91
Chapter 6 Attachment Theory and the Therapeutic Relationship in the Treatment of Personality Disorder 93
Louise Sainsbury
Chapter 7 Therapeutic Style and Adapting Approaches to Therapy 115
Kerry Beckley
Chapter 8 The Grey Areas of Boundary Issues When Working with Forensic Patients Who Have a Personality Disorder 127
Sue Evershed
Chapter 9 One Patient’s Therapeutic Journey 147
‘James’ and Louise Sainsbury
Section 4: Supporting and Developing the Therapeutic Workforce 157
Chapter 10 Therapists’ Experiences of Therapy 159
Neil Gordon, Kerry Beckley and Graham Lowings
Chapter 11 Making Sense of Interpersonal Dynamics: A Schema Focused Approach 172
Kerry Beckley
Chapter 12 The Importance of Systemic Workforce Development in High Secure Settings 188
Andrea Milligan and Neil Gordon
Chapter 13 Establishing a Supervision Culture for Clinicians Working with Personality Disordered Offenders in a High Secure Hospital 200
Andrea Daykin and Neil Gordon
Section 5: Outcomes 211
Chapter 14 An Individual Approach to Assessing Change 213
Jason Davies
Chapter 15 Patient Experiences of Therapeutic and Anti-therapeutic Processes 232
Phil Willmot
Chapter 16 Looking to the Future 243
Neil Gordon and Phil Willmot
Index 247
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—Professor Kevin Howells, Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology, Institute of Mental Health and Nottingham University, UK
‘This book is essential reading for practitioners and service managers, researchers and even service users in facilities for people with personality disorder – in forensic mental health, prison and probation. Using the Personality Disorder Service at Rampton Hospital as its focus, this book examines every aspect of the organised therapeutic response to personality disordered offenders – from changing patterns in referrals and care pathways to evidence-based assessments and treatments; from therapeutic engagement and style to boundaries; from workforce planning and development to the service user experience. This is a treasure chest of essential guidance from those in a position to lead the way.’
—Dr Caroline Logan, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester, UK
